... outlines a model by which the ROI of OET can be calculated, and encourages research in this area. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Leadership Team building Training Experiential learning Employee development Evaluation Businesses are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on outdoor...

... consisting of shapers alone. Some possible explanations and implications of the findings are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Organizational development Team building Teamwork The effectiveness of teams varies greatly, and considerable research has been devoted to seeking the formula...

...Rosemary Rushmer For many years there has been a preoccupation with the need to evaluate the effectiveness of team building interventions (TBIs) in organizational development projects. Often these evaluations attempt some kind of measurement of the team before and after the team‐building event...

...Rosemary K. Rushmer Looks at the use of the Team Management Index (TMI) as a team building intervention in a programme of organizational development (OD). Attempts to assess the instrument’s effectiveness using a variety of measures (including the taxonomy of De Meuse and Liebowitz, 1981). In so...

... Learning organizations New Zealand Team building Time‐based competition is a reality in the 1990s. Business is operating in a new environment where the only constant is change. Drucker claims that, for managers, the “dynamics of knowledge impose one clear imperative: every organization has...

... programmes in any way,despite costs as high as $4000 per participant...Most of the other respondents rely on only trainee evaluations. MBAs Outdoor development Organizational performance Team building “Teamwork” is one of the buzzwords for which the early 1990s will be remembered...

... corporate strategy and team building. It is hybrid in the sense that both indoor and outdoor activities are used. The results presented indicate statistically significant improvements in team functioning across several important dimensions. While there is more acceptance of the strategy developed, its...

...Marshall Sashkin; Steve Franklin Team building is a common thread throughout most organizational change and management development activities. As teams are built, they should evolve through three stages of learning: (1) crisis problem solving, (2) productivity improvement to the current situation...

...Lynne McClure; William B. Werther, Jr In designing consultant‐driven management development interventions, personality issues typically are viewed as moderating variables, if they are considered at all. Reports on two“action‐research” oriented, team‐building interventions,based on Jungian theory...

... for the management development curriculum. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Co‐operation Management development Team building Integrating Self-directed Teams into the Management Development Curriculum Thomas P. Mullen New York University, USA Integrating Self-directed Teams 43 Self-directed teams (SDTs) have...

...R. Wayne Boss The pressures currently facing US health care organisations,especially hospitals, in a risk environment are analysed. An important route to maximising efficiency is identified as improved collaboration amongst personnel. Team‐building interventions are recommended and the elements...

... Together and Alone: Cooperation, Competition and Individualisation, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1975 pp. 59-69 and pp. 71-93. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Japan Management development Organizational change Workplace learning Team building Note: This paper was subsequently...